 The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed like Laoc'oon ' struggling ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python.  The author - Page 93by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
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...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous cojls of the monster Python. It was the lion of trees perishing in the embraces of a vegetable Boa.... | |
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...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python."— Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines 10, 11, 12. Thou hast perish'd More... | |
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...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...trees perishing in the embraces of a vegetable boa." t Ibid. p. HO. is convoluted regularly, but sometimes is revolute, or twining first to one side and... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python." — Sracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines 10, 11, 12. Thou hast perish'... | |
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...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous coilsof the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...elapsed its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 187, lines 1, 2, 3. Thou hastperish'd Morenoblyfar... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...elapsed its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python."— Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 187, lines 1, 2, 3. Thou hast perish'd More... | |
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...withered in its embrace. It •eemed like Laoco( n struggling ineffectually in the hideous eoilsof the monster Python. It was the lion of trees perishing in the embraces of a vegetable Boa." Example 6. Webster in his address to General La Fayette has the following passage; '•Sir, we have... | |
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...clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It seemed...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on forest Trees. Note 4, page 4, col. 1. Thou hait perished More nobly... | |
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